Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) said on Sunday he believes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress">Congress</a> should approve a short-term funding bill to avert a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/government-shutdown">government shutdown</a>.
The conservative lawmaker explained on Fox News how a continuing resolution would provide more time to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-fails-to-pass-defense-spending-bill-after-mccarthy-delays-short-term-funding-vote">pass individual bills on spending for various facets of the federal government</a> in the upcoming fiscal year.
&#8220;I think a government shutdown is possible. I think it&#8217;s avoidable. I think we should avoid it,&#8221; Lee <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337751880112">told &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; anchor Maria Bartiromo</a>. &#8220;I think the best way to proceed at this point would be to pass something that keeps the government funded for a few weeks.&#8221;
The GOP-led House of Representatives is on course to advance as many as four appropriations bills in the coming days, Lee noted.
But with only one of a dozen such appropriations bills passed out of the House, time is running out ahead of a possible shutdown at the end of the month.
Leadership in the House and Senate on both sides of the aisle, &#8220;year after year, in all of its iterations, has waited until the last minute and written up omnibus spending bills, which it drops on Congress at the worst possible moment,&#8221; Lee said.
&#8220;Sometimes, they like to extend the deadline up until close to Christmas, and then they use Christmas extortion to get people to vote for it, not wanting to cause a shutdown and be delayed or getting home to their families just before Christmas,&#8221; Lee added.
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Ultimately, both chambers of Congress and the White House need to come to an agreement for any bill to get final approval.
Spending battles that bring the government to the brink — in some cases leading to a temporary government shutdown — have &#8220;got to stop,&#8221; Lee said.
The &#8220;best way to stop&#8221; this cycle, he argued, &#8220;is by doing these appropriations bills one by one. Fund one part of government after the other one at a time until it&#8217;s all done.&#8221;
Lee also said he was unaware of any reason why the House should stop its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-oversight-schedules-first-biden-impeachment-hearing">impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden</a> during a government shutdown.
&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing suggesting to me that Congress can&#8217;t do its work if that happens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;In any event, we shouldn&#8217;t use that as an excuse unilaterally to disarm and to just accede to whatever the Democrats want.&#8221;

Sen. Mike Lee

Mike Lee Argues Congress Should Avoid Government Shutdown

Mike Lee Explains Why He Wants To Avoid Government Shutdown

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Government Shutdown

Mike Lee

Politics

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) warned Fox News that Matt Walsh&#8217;s report that the cable giant&#8217;s parent company promotes radical gender theory could prove &#8220;devastating&#8221; to the news network, which he said provides &#8220;much-needed, conservative content.&#8221;
On Thursday, The Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fox-corp-encourages-employees-to-support-radical-lgbtq-organizations-uses-woke-ai-to-track-commitment-to-dei-matt-walsh-reveals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted a Twitter thread</a> revealing Fox Corp&#8217;s annual &#8220;Pride&#8221; month campaign includes recommending sexually explicit literature to Fox News employees and that the company has even used artificial intelligence to track workers&#8217; commitment to the woke principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
“This kind of deliberate alienation of its own audience might not end well for Fox News,” Lee tweeted Thursday night. “But for the fact that there is no other large cable news company in America that is widely known as conservative (or even right of center), this account could prove devastating.”
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This kind of deliberate alienation of its own audience might not end well for Fox News. But for the fact that there is no other large cable news company in America that is widely known as conservative (or even right of center), this account could prove devastating. <a href="https://t.co/UYuMSaXdY8">https://t.co/UYuMSaXdY8</a>
&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1669465151177912320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Fox News has a lot of good talent and produces much-needed, conservative content,” Lee added in comments to <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/15/mike-lee-warns-fox-will-alienate-loyal-audience-by-promoting-woke-ideology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Signal</a>. “But if that network turns on its (currently loyal) fan base — and becomes like literally every other broadcast and cable news outlet — its most avid viewers will go somewhere else, and they will do so quickly, never to return.”
In his Twitter thread, Walsh said the company is ensuring compliance by using AI.
“Not all Fox employees are happy with this propaganda,” Walsh stated. “That might be why, last year, Fox experimented with a solution to monitor employees’ commitment to DEI. It’s an AI platform called Eskalera, which tracks employees’ commitment to the cult of DEI. Fox leadership told employees to sign up for Eskalera so that the AI could help them ‘engage in activities that will deepen’ their ‘understanding of identity and ‘explore more nuanced D&amp;I concepts.’”
The Daily Signal had <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/22/exclusive-leaked-policy-exposes-fox-news-stances-on-woke-ideology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on May 22 from information gleaned in the company handbook that Fox News employees “are allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex, and permitted to dress in alignment with their preferred gender. They must also be addressed by their preferred name and pronouns in the workplace.”
The report also noted Fox News’ trans activist language such as “gender-affirming care” and female pronouns for men such as Dylan Mulvaney and Lia Thomas and quoted a source from Fox News who declared that producers for the “Fox News Tonight” received a directive from high-level executives not to bash Mulvaney.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fox-corp-encourages-employees-to-support-radical-lgbtq-organizations-uses-woke-ai-to-track-commitment-to-dei-matt-walsh-reveals">Fox Corp. Encourages Employees To Support Radical LGBTQ Organizations, Uses ‘Woke AI’ To Track Commitment To DEI, Matt Walsh Reveals</a>

Senate Holds Confirmation Hearing For Amy Coney Barrett To Be Supreme Court Justice

Sen. Mike Lee Warns Matt Walsh Revelations Could Prove ‘Devastating’ To Fox

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Matt Walsh

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As a deal hashed out between President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> and House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kevin-mccarthy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kevin McCarthy</a> (R-CA) to avoid a U.S. debt default makes its way through <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>, several Republican senators have already come out against the bill, saying that it does not go far enough to cut spending. 
Those opposed to the deal, known as the <a href="https://rules.house.gov/bill/118/hr-fiscal-responsibility-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fiscal Responsibility Act</a>, include Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), while others have expressed concerns about the bill in its current form. 
“I think the Biden-McCarthy debt deal is a disaster for the country. It does not significantly change the trajectory of the debt. Each year we’ll spend more money and the debt will grow $4 trillion in two years. It’s not very conservative,” Paul <a href="https://www.kktv.com/video/2023/05/31/sen-rand-paul-reacts-deal-debt-ceiling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> reporters this week. 
Paul added that he planned on introducing a “conservative alternative” to the deal, which <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-rand-paul-announces-conservative-alternative-to-biden-mccarthy-debt-deal/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20D.C.%20%E2%80%93%20Today%2C%20U.S.,responsible%20reforms%20and%20necessary%20cuts." target="_blank" rel="noopener">would implemen</a>t a $500 billion hike on the debt ceiling to allow Congress more time to negotiate, put caps on total spending, and mandate that increases in federal outlays cannot exceed increases in federal revenue. 
Lee previously <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1661716721575804928" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised</a> to use any procedural tool necessary to “impede” a debt ceiling deal that he believed did not cut spending enough, and he has voiced opposition to the agreement as it currently stands. 
“I believe McCarthy was misled, not malicious in signing onto this deal. But the deal simply does not do what its proponents claim it does — not even close. It’s time to go back to the drawing board or, even better, go back to what the House already passed,” Lee <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1663666847697207296" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
Cruz <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1662883736386404352" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to the deal as a “blank check” for Biden, saying that it gave Democrats “$4 trillion things” that they wanted. Hawley <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article275902901.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Kansas City Star that he opposed the deal because it didn’t address America’s trade deficit with China. 
“I think until we get serious about that, we can talk about fiddling with this or that set of numbers but until we get serious about really correcting that imbalance and bringing back jobs and industry, we’re not going to make the change that we need to see,” he said. 
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Meanwhile, Ohio Republican Senator J.D. Vance <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he was a “firm no” to the proposal in its current form, and South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1663245067509694477?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> concern over spending cuts in the deal. 
The McCarthy-Biden agreement <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debt-ceiling-bill-house-rules-committee-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advanced past</a> the House Rules Committee in a 7-6 vote on Tuesday afternoon, with key conservatives Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) voting against and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) voting in favor. 
House leadership has expressed confidence that they will have enough votes to get the deal through the lower chamber though it will face opposition from members of the House Freedom Caucus, meaning it will likely require Democrat votes to pass.
McCarthy has acknowledged the bill&#8217;s detractors but said it was the best they could do with a Democrat-controlled Senate and presidency.
“Maybe it doesn’t do everything for everyone, but this is a step in the right direction that no one thought that we would be able to today,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/speaker-kevin-mccarthy-touts-wins-conservatives-secured-in-tentative-debt-ceiling-agreement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">McCarthy said</a>. “I’ll debate this bill with anybody. Is it everything I wanted? No, because we don’t control all of it. But it is the biggest rescission in history. It is the biggest cut Congress has ever voted for in that process.”

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‘A Disaster’: Republican Senators Voice Opposition To McCarthy-Biden Debt Ceiling Deal

Republican Senators Voice Opposition To McCarthy-Biden Debt Ceiling Deal

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JD Vance

Joe Biden

Josh Hawley

Kevin McCarthy

Lindsey Graham

Rand Paul

Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-lee-senate-republicans-have-more-than-enough-votes-to-block-clean-debt-ceiling-force-dems-to-negotiate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) doesn’t like where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-most-americans-want-spending-cuts-included-in-debt-ceiling-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debt-ceiling</a> negotiations between House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and President Joe Biden are heading. 
Lee, who chairs the Senate Republican Steering Committee, said Thursday morning that he fears the talks on raising the debt ceiling are ignoring “substantial spending and budgetary reforms” that conservatives in the House and the Senate say are vital for any deal to be made. 
“I will use every procedural tool at my disposal to impede a debt-ceiling deal that doesn’t contain substantial spending and budgetary reforms,” Lee tweeted. “I fear things are moving in that direction. If they do, that proposal will not face smooth sailing in the Senate.”
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I will use every procedural tool at my disposal to impede a debt-ceiling deal that doesn’t contain substantial spending and budgetary reforms. I fear things are moving in that direction. If they do, that proposal will not face smooth sailing in the Senate.
&mdash; Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) <a href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1661716721575804928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Utah senator’s comment comes as the White House and McCarthy are reportedly nearing an agreement to raise the debt ceiling before June 1, when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. could be unable to pay its bills. McCarthy <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/white-house-republicans-seek-close-us-debt-ceiling-deal-deadline-nears-2023-05-25/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Thursday that he worked “well past midnight” with Biden, but there are “still some outstanding issues,&#8221; adding that he has &#8220;directed our teams to work 24/7 to try to solve this problem.” 
The House speaker is being pressured by the House Freedom Caucus to hold the line. The most conservative bloc of the House Republicans <a href="https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/1661775828982562816/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> to McCarthy on Thursday, asking him to only agree to a deal with the White House that would help “minimiz[e] the damaging inflationary consequences of reckless spending.”
The Republican-led House passed the “Limit, Save, Grow Act” last month, which would raise the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion while also cutting the budget by $4.8 trillion over the next decade, The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4020385-gop-senator-vows-to-delay-debt-ceiling-deal-lacking-substantial-reform/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The reforms desired in that legislation are not expected to make it past the Democrat-controlled Senate and White House, however. 
Lee, who has led the effort to push for budgetary reform, could delay floor proceedings on a debt ceiling bill through procedural tools such as requiring a full reading of the bill and refusing to waive motions to skip other Senate formalities. 
Earlier this month, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joined Lee and 41 other Senate Republicans in signing a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3991288-mcconnell-warns-he-wont-back-debt-ceiling-increase-without-substantive-reforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stating that the Senate GOP would not support “any bill that raises the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms.” 
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“It is now clear that Senate Republicans aren’t going to bail out on Biden and Schumer, they have to negotiate. I thank my colleagues for joining my effort to emphasize this point in the clearest possible terms,” Lee said.

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GOP Senator Fears Debt-Ceiling Negotiations Headed In Wrong Direction, Vows To Delay For ‘Substantial’ Budget Reform

Sen. Mike Lee Fears Debt-Ceiling Deal Headed In Wrong Direction, Vows To Delay For 'Substantial' Budget Reform

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Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) said Sunday that he has more than enough votes to prevent Democrats from passing a &#8220;clean&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/debt-ceiling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debt ceiling</a> increase.
Appearing on Fox News&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/shows/sunday-morning-futures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Morning Futures</a>,&#8221; Lee told host Maria Bartiromo that 45 Republicans, including himself, would vote against a bill that raises the debt ceiling without meaningful spending reforms. He said because of the Senate filibuster, that number is more than enough to block Democrats from passing a &#8220;clean&#8221; debt ceiling bill, and Lee believes that the conference will hold firm.
&#8220;As Kevin McCarthy, as Speaker of the House, meets with the White House, it&#8217;s imperative that he arrives position of negotiating power,&#8221; said Lee. &#8220;And to that end, we&#8217;ve got not only the Republican conference in the Senate backing what the Republicans in the House passed the week before last, we&#8217;ve also got a solid bloc of Republicans, more than enough, to block any sort of so-called &#8216;clean&#8217; debt ceiling bill from going forward, anything that raises the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budgetary reforms.&#8221;
Lee said that 43 Republicans signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declaring their opposition to a clean debt ceiling bill, and two more promised to back the effort without signing the letter. In total, there are 45 Republicans who will vote to prevent ending the debate on a clean debt ceiling bill.
Furthermore, Lee said the conference would remain united to oppose the debt limit increase. &#8220;We&#8217;ve got 43 Republican Senators who have signed this letter pledging to do exactly as I just described, and then we&#8217;ve got two more who for strategic reasons didn&#8217;t want to sign, but indicated that they will stand with us in the votes, [and] a couple of others who may yet decide to join us,&#8221; said Lee. &#8220;So that&#8217;s more than enough. Even if we lost one or two here or there, we&#8217;d still be fine, and I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re gonna lose any of them.&#8221;
Lee led a group of 43 Senate Republicans who sent a <a href="https://www.lee.senate.gov/2023/5/sen-lee-leads-43-gop-senators-in-opposition-to-raising-debt-limit-without-substantive-spending-and-budget-reforms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to Schumer on Saturday opposing a clean debt ceiling increase.
&#8220;The Senate Republican conference is united behind the House Republican conference in support of spending cuts and structural budget reform as a starting point for negotiations on the debt ceiling,&#8221; the Senators wrote.
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&#8220;Our economy is in free fall due to unsustainable fiscal policies. This trajectory must be addressed with fiscal reforms. Moreover, recent Treasury projections have reinforced the urgency of addressing the debt ceiling. The House has taken a responsible first step in coming to the table with their proposals. It is imperative that the president now do the same. As such, we will not be voting for cloture on any bill that raises the debt ceiling without substantive spending and budget reforms.&#8221;

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Mike Lee: Senate Republicans Have ‘More Than Enough’ Votes To Block ‘Clean’ Debt Ceiling, Force Dems To Negotiate

Mike Lee: Senate Republicans Have 'More Than Enough' Votes To Block 'Clean' Debt Ceiling, Force Dems To Negotiate

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The group behind the Conservative Political Action Committee released its annual analysis of Congress’ voting records and slammed Senate Republicans, giving Minority Leader Mitch McConnell the lowest conservative rating of his 38-year career.
Through the coronavirus-fueled spending spree, Democrats were often “aided by RINO/establishment Republicans, many of them Old Bulls who announced their retirement,” chairman Matt Schlapp wrote, calling it “shameful” that a “$1.7 trillion Omnibus spending bill passed two days before Christmas with Republican leadership’s acquiescence.”
The American Conservative Union&#8217;s <a href="http://ratings.conservative.org/people?state=US&amp;year=2022&amp;level=state&amp;orderBy=rating" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ratings</a> for 2022 reveal a sharp contrast between the leadership of McConnell, who received a 56%, and Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who received a 91%. Scott led the National Republican Senatorial Committee and repeatedly sparred with McConnell, while cultivating his own group of emerging leaders that called themselves the “breakfast club.”
Breakfast Club members included Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana, who both received a perfect 100% rating from CPAC. (<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/breakfast-club-gop-senators-calling-official-conference-meeting-wednes-rcna61597" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC</a> reported that Braun is an “unofficial” member of the club.) Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky also received a perfect score. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, another member of the Breakfast Club, received an honorable mention at 97%.
McConnell’s lieutenants in the current Republican leadership included Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, who received an 81%, Conference Chairman Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, at 89%, Policy Committee Chair Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, at 74%, and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who was vice chair of the Republican Conference despite having a conservative score of only 53%.
McConnell is 81 years old and joined the Senate in 1985. Scott is 70 and joined the Senate in 2019 after serving as governor of Florida. McConnell&#8217;s ACU score was down eight points from 2021.
Thomas Bradbury, who helped craft the ratings for the American Conservative Union, said who is in leadership is “really important” in part because the tone for what it means to be conservative is set “from the top down.”
In the House, the members who received a perfect score were Reps. Michael Cloud and Chip Roy from Texas, Bob Good of Virginia, Jody Hice and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Kevin Hern of Oklahoma, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Debbie Lesko of Arizona, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Mary Miller of Illionis, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, Matt Rosendale of Montana, and Greg Steube of Florida.
The average Senate Republican got a 78%, while the average House Republican got an 80%.
Moderate Republican senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine received 43% and 38%, respectively.
The lowest-scoring House Republican was Brian Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent from Pennslyvania, at 24%. Second-worst was John Katko of New York, at 26%. Third-worst was former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, who Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed to the anti-Trump January 6 committee and who is now a CNN contributor.
The scores were based on congressmen’s votes on key bills, including ones that CPAC opposed and described as federalizing elections, bailing out the postal service, and nominating Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
The list also included votes on bills that CPAC supported, including ones they described as blocking vaccine mandates, killing earmarks, and sending billions to Ukraine without oversight.
The Senate was split 50-50 among the parties in 2022, meaning that Republicans had little chance of passing a bill unless all of them were united.
Dozens of Senate Republicans voted for a “continuing resolution” that CPAC said gave Democrats leverage by giving them another week to negotiate a spending deal before a government shutdown kicked in.
CPAC’s ratings have proven crucial to determining whether Republicans voted the way they campaigned. The group also rates state lawmakers, and The Daily Wire used those voting scores for a multi-part analysis of state legislatures that found that, shockingly, the more of a majority that Republicans had in a state, the more moderate its Republican lawmakers behaved once in office.
Montana Republican lawmakers, for example, behaved more moderately than California Republicans, essentially just putting an R behind their name so they could win the election.
In some states, an establishment of moderate Republicans allegedly retaliated against conservative members, with the South Carolina legislature booting “Freedom Caucus” members from the Republican caucus.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington ‘Vote Like Liberals’</a>

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CPAC Releases Conservative Rankings–Mitch McConnell’s Lowest In 38 Years

CPAC Releases Conservative Rankings--Mitch McConnell’s Lowest In 38 Years

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The personal <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> account of Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) was restored after a brief suspension on Wednesday.
The lawmaker said that the reason for the suspension was not immediately clear. “Twitter did not alert me ahead of time, nor have they yet offered an explanation for the suspension,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1630999446149373953" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> from his official account during his suspension. “My team and I are seeking answers.”
The suspension came after Lee posted a number of tweets on Tuesday exhorting Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to release Navy Lieutenant Ridge Alkonis, who is serving a three-year prison sentence for his purported role in a fatal car crash two years ago. The lawmaker told Kishida that he had until midnight to release the sailor before Lee sought to remove military aid from Japan, with which the United States is an ally.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve made your choice,&#8221; Lee said shortly after the midnight deadline, according to a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-mike-lee-demands-release-us-navy-vet-imprisoned-japan-threatens-consequences" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Fox News. &#8220;I hope you&#8217;re ready for some conversations on the Senate floor that you&#8217;re not likely to enjoy. This issue isn&#8217;t going away, and neither am I.&#8221;
A number of lawmakers, including Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), asked Twitter CEO Elon Musk why Lee was suspended. The world’s richest man acquired Twitter at the end of last year for $44 billion and announced that he wanted to return freedom of expression to the platform.
Lee&#8217;s account was <a class="c-link" href="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1631014946208206855" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://twitter.com/BasedMikeLee/status/1631014946208206855" data-sk="tooltip_parent">restored</a> on Wednesday afternoon, although the lawmakers says there is “still no explanation” from the company on what happened. Musk then <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1631030915810967552" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a> that the account was &#8220;incorrectly flagged as impersonation.&#8221;
Lee was suspended less than one month after Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) temporarily lost access to his Twitter account after he changed his profile photo to an image from a hunting trip with his wife, Cindy Daines. The post stood in violation of Twitter rules against “graphic violence or adult content in profile images,” according to a <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelDumke9/status/1622940946076672006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">notice</a> from the social media company shared by Daines spokeswoman Rachel Dumke. “We consider graphic violence to be any form of gory media related to death, serious injury, violence, or surgical procedures,” the notice continued.
The picture, which showed Cindy Daines and her husband posing next to an antelope she had killed, appeared to show little blood apart from some drops on the animal’s front leg. There were no firearms or other weapons shown in the picture.
Musk vowed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-being-fixed-musk-responds-after-gop-senator-was-locked-out-of-twitter-over-hunting-picture" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolve</a> the issue after officials such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) voiced concern. “This is being fixed,” the entrepreneur remarked. “Policy against showing blood in profile pic is being amended to ‘clearly showing blood without clicking on the profile pic.’ The intent is to avoid people being forced to see gruesome profile pics.”
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Musk previously <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> advertisers that he purchased the company to “have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.” At the same time, he has expressed a desire to refrain from promoting what he deems to be radical left-wing and right-wing content on the site; he vowed that the social media platform would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” where users could breach the law with impunity or splinter into “echo chambers.”

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Republican senators pressed Attorney General Merrick Garland on enforcing a federal law against protests outside Supreme Court justices&#8217; homes.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) set a focus on demonstrators carrying signs and shouting slogans outside the residences of justices after the 2022 leak and issuance of the Supreme Court opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization case, which determined that abortion is not a constitutional right.
Lee, a former law clerk, said it is &#8220;very clear&#8221; that protesters are trying to influence jurisprudence in potential violation of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1507" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18 U.S. Code § 1507</a>, which prohibits pickets or parades near the house of a judge with the intent of influencing or impeding the administration of justice.
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Mike Lee questions Merrick Garland on the political persecution of peaceful pro-life activists &#8211; March 1st 2023 <a href="https://t.co/V57i1ChLg7">pic.twitter.com/V57i1ChLg7</a>
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Garland said he did not know the answer when asked if anyone has been charged under the statute, but stressed that the U.S. Marshals Service, a bureau of the Justice Department, is focused on protecting justices and their families and can make arrests if the situation calls for it.
&#8220;As soon as the Dobbs draft leaked I ordered the Marshals to do something that the United States Marshals had never in history done before, which was protect the justices&#8217; homes, residences, and lives 24-7,&#8221; he testified.
Garland said 70 U.S. Marshals were assigned to this task, and attributed this deployment to foiling the plans of a man arrested and charged with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-id-armed-man-who-said-he-wanted-to-kill-supreme-court-justice-kavanaugh-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempting to murder</a> Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
State and local officials have &#8220;similar&#8221; authorities, noted Garland, who then said he did not know what, if any, actions they have taken.
Lee appeared unsatisfied with Garland&#8217;s answers.
&#8220;It is concerning to me when you show up at the home of a public official. You&#8217;re sending the message of implicit violence,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;You&#8217;re sending the message, &#8216;We know where you sleep.&#8217; &#8216;We know where you and your family are most vulnerable.'&#8221;
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During another round of questioning, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) picked back up on the issue of protecting Supreme Court justices. Cruz asked the attorney general point blank if protesting outside the home of a judge intent with the intent of influencing that judge in a pending case is a federal crime. Garland said the answer is &#8220;yes.&#8221;
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and AG Garland go back and forth over protesters outside SCOTUS justices’ homes.
Cruz: “How did you choose not to enforce this statute?”
Garland: “The marshals on scene …”
Cruz: “Marshals don’t make that decision.”
Garland: “They do make the decision!” <a href="https://t.co/FlPLy8etU3">pic.twitter.com/FlPLy8etU3</a>
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The exchange turned confrontational as Cruz accused the Justice Department and Garland of inaction as &#8220;extremist groups&#8221; shared personal information not only about the justices, but also members of their families.
&#8220;Your failure to act to protect the safety of the justices and their families was an obvious product of political bias!&#8221; Cruz said.
Garland rejected claims of political bias and asserted he did not sit idly by in protecting the justices.

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After a closed-door briefing this week on all the balloons and unidentified flying objects being shot down in U.S. skies of late, a reporter caught up with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and asked what he learned.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t learn a darn thing,&#8221; Lee said.
&#8220;Did you get any answers as to what those other objects were,&#8221; the reporter asked.
&#8220;Not at all,&#8221; the senator said.
But Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) was either at a different briefing or paid closer attention. He offered a slew of information about the UFOs and the Chinese balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina last week.
&#8220;We’ve already recovered a lot of the debris from what [the briefer] referred to as &#8216;the Chinese spy balloon,&#8217; including propulsion equipment. They expect to gain significant intelligence from the recovery,&#8221; he said in a post on <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@jeffjacksonnc/video/7200123875269692715" target="_blank" rel="noopener">substack</a>.
The Chinese balloon led the U.S. to take action. &#8220;After the incident with the spy balloon, a decision was made to start scrutinizing our air space more closely. Adjustments were made to how we process a lot of the data we collect about what’s flying overhead,&#8221; Jackson said.
&#8220;[T]he vast majority of the data wasn’t being processed because there was no single system that exists for the purpose of identifying these kinds of objects,&#8221; he added.
Jackson also gave some details about the other UFOs, which he referred to as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
&#8220;The three UAPs that have been shot down since then were all &#8216;fundamentally different&#8217; from the spy balloon in that they were much smaller and they were flying much lower, between 20,000 and 30,000 feet. That put them within the altitude band for civilian air traffic, which was a factor in the decision to shoot them down. By contrast, the spy balloon was at an altitude of 60,000,&#8221; Jackson wrote.
The lawmaker added that the three UAVs were flying in proximity to a Department of Defense &#8220;sensitive location,&#8221; noting that was also a factor in shooting them down.
In addition, the UAVs did not have the required signal devices on board. &#8220;In the U.S., academic and commercial balloons have to include transponders that let the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] know where they are at all times. These UAPs did not appear to have transponders, and that was also a factor in the decision to shoot them down,&#8221; Jackson said.
The congressman also gave details about the size and shapes of the crafts. &#8220;Of the three UAPs, one was much larger than the other two. Its size and shape is consistent with a balloon. The other two were roughly the size of &#8216;an ATV or a four-wheeler,'&#8221; he said.
Jackson noted that there’s no evidence at this point that any of the three UAVs were &#8220;doing anything nefarious and each of them could turn out to be academic or commercial. We won’t know until they’re recovered.&#8221;
In that effort, Jackson laid out exactly where the three UAVs are now.
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<li>&#8220;One UAV was shot down over Alaska. The debris is believed to be on an ice cap, which is moving, and the temperature is -50 with the wind chill.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;A second UAV was shot down in Canada in some very tall, snowy mountains. We’re assisting Canadians with trying to locate the debris.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;A third UAV was shot down near the US/Canada border but is probably on the Canadian side. Another joint effort is underway.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
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Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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President Joe Biden started off his State of the Union address with a wonderful call for unity.
&#8220;You know, we’re often told that Democrats and Republicans can’t work together. But over the past two years, we proved the cynics and naysayers wrong,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;To my Republican friends, if we could work together in the last Congress, there’s no reason we can’t work together and find consensus on important things in this Congress as well.&#8221;
But then he got nasty.
&#8220;So my — many of — some of my Republican friends want to take the economy hostage — I get it — unless I agree to their economic plans. All of you at home should know what those plans are. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans — some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I’m not saying it’s a majority &#8211;&#8221;
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THE PRESIDENT: Let me give you —
AUDIENCE: No!
THE PRESIDENT: Anybody who doubts it, contact my office. I’ll give you a copy. I’ll give you a copy of the proposal.</blockquote>
But that hasn&#8217;t happened. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) has offered an 11-point plan that includes a proposal for every piece of federal legislation to sunset after five years. If the legislation works, Congress could simply renew it.
Yet Democrats love their &#8220;Mediscare.&#8221; They love telling the American people that the GOP is going to attack the most vulnerable in our nation &#8212; knowing full well that it&#8217;s not true.
For his part, Scott <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3849304-scott-doubles-down-on-sunsetting-all-federal-programs-after-bidens-jab/">dismissed</a> Biden’s accusations as a “dishonest move” by a “very confused president.” “I will not be intimidated by Joe Biden twisting my words,” he added.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, too, has pondered reformations to Social Security.
“There are modest reforms in entitlements that can be done without disadvantaging anybody at the point of the need,” Pence <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3843718-pence-weve-got-to-have-a-conversation-about-reforming-social-security/">said</a> last week. That isn&#8217;t exactly doing away with the entitlement programs.
Pence has also suggested the U.S. government let younger Americans put part of their Social Security withholdings into a private savings account, but that idea went nowhere when George W. Bush proposed it back in the aughts.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) has gone further, saying in 2010, it &#8220;will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it up by the roots and get rid of it.&#8221;
After backlash, he walked that back, eventually <a href="https://www.heraldextra.com/news/2022/oct/29/in-his-own-words-a-convesation-with-sen-mike-lee/">proposing</a> a privatization plan similar to Pence&#8217;s.
Other Republicans have suggested moving the threshold age for Medicare to 67 and for Social Security to 70 in an attempt to reduce costs. But Republicans joined Democrats this year in boosting Social Security by 14% in the 2023 budget, and Medicare is set for a $32 billion increase, taking its gross spending on benefits above $1 trillion.
So Republicans don&#8217;t really want to do away with either program. But Biden got himself worked up into a tizzy, foaming at the mouth as he said, &#8220;Those benefits belong to the American people. They earned it. And if anyone tries to cut Social Security &#8230; if anyone tries to cut Medicare, I’ll stop them. I’ll veto it.&#8221;
&#8220;And, look, I’m not going to allow them to take away — be taken away. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.&#8221;
Well, no one&#8217;s trying to do that, Mr. President. And you know that.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Republicans Aren’t Really Trying To Kill Social Security And Medicare, And Biden Knows It

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Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mitch-mcconnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mitch McConnell</a> (R-KY) removed Sens. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/rick-scott" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rick Scott</a> (R-FL) and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-lee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Lee</a> (R-UT) from the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday after the two lawmakers attempted to oust the veteran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/republican-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican</a> leader.
Scott claimed during an <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3840167-mcconnell-pulls-rival-rick-scott-off-powerful-commerce-committee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Hill that McConnell “kicked” him off the Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over science, transportation, technology, and a host of interstate commerce issues. Scott reportedly learned of the decision in a text message and was “furious,” one source told the outlet, which added that other conservatives concur that the failed leadership bid was a major factor behind the removal.
“This is what happens when you challenge leadership,” he said in a statement to The Daily Wire. “It was McConnell’s decision to remove someone who has actually run businesses and ran the third largest state from a committee I’ve served on for four years. You’ll have to ask him why.”
Mike Lee&#8217;s communications director, Lee Lonsberry, told The Daily Wire that the lawmaker “would have liked to stay on as a member of the Commerce Committee, but this change won’t affect the good work he does for the people of Utah and the nation.” McConnell&#8217;s office declined to comment when contacted by The Daily Wire.
Scott <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rick-scott-announces-bid-to-oust-mcconnell-as-senate-gop-leader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> his opposition campaign to McConnell following the midterm elections, during which Republicans were expected to see a robust majority in the House of Representatives and possibly clinch the majority in the Senate. Democrats instead gained one seat in the upper chamber as Republicans managed to win a razor-thin majority in the House.
In a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23307461-rick-scott-senate-leader-letter?responsive=1&amp;title=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to his colleagues sent days after the midterms, Scott said he was “deeply disappointed” by the results and added that Republican voters failed to see a concrete plan for governance from party leadership. He also cited concerns such as omnibus bills, excessive federal spending, and compromise deals with which most Republicans “disagree.”
“I understand that I won’t gain the support of every member of our Conference, but we all have a clear choice to make. If you simply want to stick with the status quo, don’t vote for me,” he wrote. “I ask for your support in changing the direction of the Senate and rescuing America from the dangerous path Democrats have set it on.”
McConnell <a href="https://twitter.com/heatherscope/status/1592629761205235712" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in response to the challenge that he had the necessary votes to prevail and forecasted that he would be elected. “I don’t own this job. Anybody in the conference is certainly entitled to challenge me,” he added. “And I welcome the contest.”
While 10 senators, including Lee, voted for Scott, 37 voted for McConnell. “I’m not going anywhere,” McConnell said after the vote, according to a <a href="https://apnews.com/article/florida-mitch-mcconnell-congress-9f1be1d3635127dbb3e17a3fae1ac86d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Associated Press, adding that he was “pretty proud” of the outcome.
The vote among Senate Republicans followed a similarly heated leadership contest among their counterparts in the House. Several members <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/seven-house-republicans-list-demands-for-next-speaker-as-mccarthy-battles-for-every-vote" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that the next Speaker of the House should ensure greater representation of conservative-leaning members on important committees, pledge to limit expenditures, and prioritize holding “weaponized” government agencies accountable. Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) eventually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-kevin-mccarthy-elected-next-speaker-of-the-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">garnered</a> enough Republican votes to assume control of the gavel.

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Slamming his fellow GOP senators for <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/finance/3785395-senate-passes-1-7-trillion-omnibus-spending-package/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voting for the massive omnibus bill</a> pushed by the Democratic Party, Utah GOP Senator Mike Lee, who had authored an amendment that would enable Title 42 to be extended in order to curb illegal immigration, warned of the demise of the Republican Party. The bill passed in the Senate, 68-29; 18 GOP senators <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republican-senators-who-voted-pass-1-7-trillion-omnibus-bill-1769176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted for the bill</a>.
Prior to Lee’s remarks made to Larry Kudlow of Fox News, Kudlow himself had slammed the Senate.
“The way that Senator Mike Lee was treated just a few hours ago on the floor of the Senate makes this the worst [omnibus bill] ever,” Kudlow <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/larry-kudlow-sinema-manchin-switch-defeat-title-42-no-holy-christmas-season-miracle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> of Lee’s attempt to extend Title 42. “Lee had the votes to pass his amendment; it would have been 49-48, but [Majority Leader] Senator Chuck Schumer stepped in to extend the voting time another eight minutes for some arm-twisting. Well, guess whose arms he twisted? Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin.”
“That’s right; these two ‘independent-minded’ people, who frequently boast that they are not part of the Left-wing big-government socialist-sponsoring Democratic Party, miraculously changed their votes,” he snapped.
Kudlow pointed out that had Lee’s amendment passed, in all likelihood, the omnibus bill would have failed and then been channeled into a continuing resolution that would not have been voted on until the Republicans took over the House in January, providing the opportunity to significantly change things.
Kudlow noted that Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul had said that the GOP had lost any “power of the purse” and that the GOP had “emasculated” itself.
“This is not a good episode for the Republican Party, is it?” he asked Lee.
“No, not at all,” Lee <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=405965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">answered</a>. “I’m glad you brought up the tax hikes in there, which are themselves problematic, and you’re correct to point out they are not getting the attention they deserve.”
“One of the reasons that this sort of thing can happen and not get much attention in the process – and Republicans can still go through the motions and vote for it, devastatingly – is because it’s folded into a 4,155-page bill, one that was negotiated in secret by four or five members of Congress, held secret from the public until Tuesday morning,” Lee noted, adding, “There’s not a human alive that can digest 4,155 pages of legislative appropriations text in that short period of time.”
“One of the reasons why this should never happen — Republicans, in particular, who do this — they should be asked to never, ever, do it again. We will self-destruct as a party if this ever happens again,” he concluded.

‘We Will Self-Destruct As A Party’: Mike Lee Warns Senate GOP After They Vote For Massive Omnibus Bill

Mike Lee Warns Senate GOP After They Vote For Massive Omnibus Bill

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